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Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution

Routledge, 1990

Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution delineates the human dimension of the Nicaraguan conflict, revealing what it is like to live in Nicaragua today. Through conversations with Denis Heyck, twenty Nicaraguans--powerful and powerless, rich and poor, government and oppostion, educated and illiterate--tell their fascinating stories. What emerges is the picture of a shattered society, capturing twin features of Nicaragua's revolutionary ...

Surviving Globalization
Denis Lynn Daly Heyck

Broadview Press, 2002

Globalization has reached even the most remote areas of Latin America, pushing traditional peoples and habitats to the brink of extinction and offering a stark choice: adapt or perish. Local communities are scrambling to adjust to new market and social realities while trying to hold on to those cultural values that they regard as non-negotiable. This book tells the important story of three Latin American communities experiencing ...

Tradicion y cambio: Lecturas sobre la cultura latinoamericana contemporanea
Denis Lynn Daly Heyck, María Victoria González Pagani

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1996

Tradición y cambio is one of the standard texts used in Latin American culture courses. This unique collection of diverse readings and exclusive interviews focuses on the dynamic tension between tradition and change in contemporary Latin American culture -- from the Caribbean to Central and South America, including Brazil. The thematic approach of Tradici"n y cambio identifies key issues in Latin American culture and uses the readings to ask ...

Tradición y cambio: Lecturas sobre la cultura latinoamericana contemporánea
Denis Lynn Daly Heyck, María Victoria González Pagani

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2004

A standard text in Latin American culture courses, this unique collection of diverse readings and exclusive interviews focuses on the dynamic tension between tradition and change in contemporary Latin American culture from the Caribbean to Central and South America, including Brazil. The thematic approach of Tradición y cambio highlights key issues in Latin American culture; the selections explore how those issues (such as urbanization or the ...